The United Nations Security Council extended the mandate of BINUH — the UN Integrated Office in Haiti — through October 2025, maintaining the UN’s political presence in the country as the transition from the MSS to the Gang Suppression Force was being planned and as Haiti’s transitional political arrangement navigated its increasingly difficult internal dynamics. The BINUH mandate extension was accompanied by discussion of its eventual evolution into whatever UN political support structure would accompany the GSF.
BINUH’s role in 2025 focused primarily on political support for the transitional government, human rights monitoring, and assistance with electoral planning. The mission’s small civilian staff provided technical assistance that supplemented the capacity of Haitian institutions depleted by years of crisis and the departure of skilled personnel. Its human rights documentation function produced the systematic evidence base that international advocacy relied on.
The transition from the MSS to the Gang Suppression Force raised questions about what UN political and support infrastructure should accompany the new security force. The Secretary-General’s recommendations included establishing a UN Support Office to provide logistical backing — accommodation, medical capability, information technology — to whatever mission succeeded the MSS. The BINUH mandate extension kept the UN’s civilian political presence active while these organizational questions were resolved.
Haitian civil society organizations engaged with BINUH expressed appreciation for the mission’s human rights documentation while calling for the political support function to be more assertive in pressing the transitional government on accountability for both gang violence and security force abuses. They argued that the UN’s political mission needed to use its leverage more actively to promote the governance improvements that any security intervention needed to be accompanied by.